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Arthur McDonald

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Professor EmeritusThe Department of Physics, Engineering Physics & AstronomyQueen's University

Arthur McDonald

Professor Emeritus

The Department of Physics, Engineering Physics & Astronomy

Faculty of Arts and Science

Queen's University

Kingston, Ontario, Canada

Top 2% scientist

Career, 2024: rank 198,614 worldwide, 3,569 of 158,450 in Nuclear & Particle Physics
Citations in 2024: rank 230,414 worldwide
In the career list 2 times since 2023

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Emeritus professors are retired and rarely take new students.
No publications on record.
Led 31 research grants as principal investigator (30 NSERC, 1 ONTARIO), most recently in 2019.

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Research

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Experimental research on properties of Neutrinos and Dark Matter

Latest funding

Unravelling the Cosmos: A global approach to advance science and innovate technology withastroparticle physics with the International Centre for Neutrinos and Dark Matter (ICNDM)
NSERC · 2024 · Co-investigator
$9,100,000
SNO+ Scintillator Phase and Tellurium Operations (2023-2025)
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$2,040,000
SNO+ Scintillator Phase and Tellurium Operations (2023-2025)
NSERC · 2023 · Co-investigator
$450,000

All 95 grants and awards

Unravelling the Cosmos: A global approach to advance science and innovate technology withastroparticle physics with the International Centre for Neutrinos and Dark Matter (ICNDM)

Co-investigatorNSERC2024Major Resources Support Program - Infrastructure

Principal investigators: Noble, Anthony AJ

$9,100,000

SNO+ Scintillator Phase and Tellurium Operations (2023-2025)

Co-investigatorNSERC2023Subatomic Physics Envelope - Project

Principal investigators: Chen, Mark

Keywords: neutrino physics; double beta decay; solar neutrinos; neutrino oscillations; geo neutrinos; liquid scintillator; astroparticle physics; non-accelerator particle physics; supernova neutrinos

$2,040,000

SNO+ Scintillator Phase and Tellurium Operations (2023-2025)

Co-investigatorNSERC2023Subatomic Physics Envelope - Project

Principal investigators: Kraus, Christine

Keywords: neutrino physics; double beta decay; solar neutrinos; neutrino oscillations; geo neutrinos; liquid scintillator; astroparticle physics; non-accelerator particle physics; supernova neutrinos

$450,000

The Global Argon Dark Matter Program - DEAP-3600, DarkSide-20k and ARGO

Co-investigatorNSERC2023Subatomic Physics Envelope - Project

Principal investigators: Boulay, Mark

Keywords: dark matter; liquid argon; low background; underground science; weak interaction; photosensors; microelectronics; rare event search; scintillation; radioactivity

$2,400,000

SNO+ Scintillator Phase and Tellurium Operations (2023-2025)

Co-investigatorNSERC2023Subatomic Physics Envelope - Project

Principal investigators: Hallin, Aksel

Keywords: neutrino physics; double beta decay; solar neutrinos; neutrino oscillations; geo neutrinos; liquid scintillator; astroparticle physics; non-accelerator particle physics; supernova neutrinos

$470,000

The Darkside-20k Dark Matter Detector

Co-investigatorNSERC2021Subatomic Physics Envelope - Project

Principal investigators: Hallin, Aksel

$780,000

ARGO - Development of next-generation argon dark matter search

Co-investigatorNSERC2021Subatomic Physics Envelope - Project

Principal investigators: Boulay, Mark

$420,000

The Darkside Dark Matter Detector

Co-investigatorNSERC2020Subatomic Physics Envelope - Project

Principal investigators: Hallin, Aksel

$188,000

DEAP-3600 Data Collection And Analysis

Co-investigatorNSERC2020Subatomic Physics Envelope - Project

Principal investigators: Hallin, Aksel

$284,439

DEAP-3600 Data Collection And Analysis

Co-investigatorNSERC2020Subatomic Physics Envelope - Project

Principal investigators: Boulay, Mark

$618,946

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke, Brain Canada and the New Frontiers in Research Fund.

Profile data last refreshed on September 29, 2026 from the university directory, publication records and public research funding records.

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